Solo Two-Hand Champion Build

I’ve seen the Two-handed DPS Champion build being mentioned quite a bit so I decided to try it out for myself. This is arguably the easiest and most effective way to solo the game, although it does require you to be relatively high level (15+) to pull off.

As with most Dragon Age: Inquisition builds, the 2H Champion relies on one central skill interaction. That interaction is Walking Fortress, Flow of Battle, and Whirlwind. Flow of Battle reduces the cooldown of all your skills by 1 second whenever you score a critical hit.

So when you pair it up with Whirlwind (skill with the highest number of hits available to a warrior) and high critical strike chance, you can reduce your cooldown times so quickly that you can use Walking Fortress with very little downtime.

Since Walking Fortress gives you complete damage invulnerability for 8 seconds, you can imagine how strong this skill combination is, especially for soloing the game. The other skills you get are just icing on top of the cake.

Note: The most important requirement for this build is high critical strike chance; the more you crit, the more you reduce your cooldown times, which means the more you can use Walking Fortress.

The easiest way to increase your crit chance is to craft gear with leather or cloth offensive slots. Also, keep your eyes open for any dropped gear that either gives you Cunning or Crit Chance directly. Here are some particularly good item choices for raising your crit chance:

Champion Tree: All skills except “And No Further” (Line in the Sand upgrade) and Counterstrike

Vanguard Tree: War Cry / Charging Bull / Cutting Words

Optional: There’s a bunch of useful skills in the Battlemaster tree if you have points left over. You can pick up Combat Roll if you like to be able to dodge enemy attacks (especially useful against Dragons) and Horn of Valor for a 15% damage/armor boost.

Also, if you’re having stamina issues, consider picking up Clear a Path from the Two-hand tree, or Gore and Trample from Vanguard.